"Germ infecioso" nas culturas escolares - Possibilidades e limites da política de autonomia e flexibilização curricular em Portugal

Abstract

Studies that focus on guidelines that command many of the international curriculum and assessment policies report that they have followed standardization logics that insert them into a Global Educational Reform Movement (GERM). Taking this movement as a reference, a study was conducted to identify and analyze possibilities and limits of policy measure of Autonomy and Curricular Flexibility, implemented in Portugal in 2017/2018, to constitute a counterculture to the "infectious GERM" of global policies. Data were obtained through the analysis of reports prepared by groupings of schools involved in this policy, in year of experimentation. The analysis of these reports led to conclusion that this is a project with possibilities to constitute a potential antidote to neutralize the effects of GERM. However, in its implementation several limitations are pointed out, resulting either from the acculturation of schools and teachers to principles of a homogeneous and homogenizing society, and from the lack of conditions for teachers to assume themselves as decision makers.